Joachim and Anna at the Golden

Durer, Albrecht

196073 Durer, Albrecht Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate (from the Life of a Virgin) B. 79, M. 191 1504 11 5/8'' x 8 1/8'' Woodcut on thick oatmeal paper trimmed to the borderline. Signed with the monogram and dated in the block, lower left. Triangle with Six-Petal Flower and Two Cross-Lines watermark (fragment) M. 127 dating the paper from 1471-1524. An impression from the Latin text edition of 1511 with the two fine gaps in the right upper border and the gap in the cawl of Anna. Originally Durer illustrated the cycle with the text by Benedict Schwalbe (Benedict Chelidonius) who died in 1521. Benedict was also a friend of Willibald Pirckheimer (who was Durer's life-long friend) and a Benedictine theologian from a nearby monastery. According to Giulia Bartrum, Albrecht Durer and his Legacy, 2002, the wide range of landscapes, architectural settings and incidental detail makes the nineteen woodcuts of the Life of the Virgin some of his most popular. It is with this cycle that the influence of Jacopo De Barbari (active c.1497, d. 1516?) Venetian painter and engraver, mostly in Northern Europe became apparent, expounding on Luca Pacioli's (c.1445-c.1514) compass and measurement techniques, the most famous mathematician of his day. The Life of a Virgin cycle was dedicated to one of Willibald Pirckheimer's sisters, Caritas, the Abess of the Franciscan convent of St Clara's in Nuremburg, who was, like her brother, a gifted Latin and Greek scholar. Wilibald Pirckheimer was Durer's childhood friend, humanist and court philosopher to Maximillan. The Death of a Virgin along with the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin are the two woodcuts that Durer finished in 1510 after his second bachelor journey to Italy to complete the nineteen images of the Life of a Virgin.

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196073

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11 5/8" x 8 1/8"

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